Have You Upgraded To Windows 10?

We still produce our recording machines (over 100 per month) using Win 7 Pro. Solid, dependable, predictable and inexpensive. We will stick with Win 7 until Microsoft forces us to stop.

That being said, all of our sales staff and executives are on Win 10. Personally, i really like Win 10 and have found it stable and reliable.

I have upgraded my desktop to W10 Pro from W7 Pro. My laptop is still Windows 7 as the desktop was upgraded as a test to make sure everything worked.

Then I recently purchased a SP4 to gain more portability. So far that has been a good experience using a mil-spec case, the type cover, and a Bluetooth mouse. I have all the video adapters and USB adapters to give me all the ports that a full laptop has. I have used this more as a desktop than a tablet though.

I think W10 is far better than W8, but I still feel Microsoft struggles with the whole tablet/desktop combination. The fact that you have two version of Office products that both function differently is rather confusing when both are on the same device. It's like having two different websites, desktop and mobile, instead of a responsive site.

For clients that are still using W7, replacement PCs are using W7 as well. The new PCs come with the W10 license to upgrade. Microsoft's biggest mistake was to create the biggest malware notification and force it on W7 PCs. They made it too easy for users to click upgrade before they really knew what they were doing.

Definitely, awesome, love it, cannot wait for Windows 11, 12, 20 or whatever comes next. I have 37 years on machines and moving forward has become a lot of fun mixed with some heartbreak challenges. I can always reminisce on days of old with the cool green glow of my monochrome monitor, harmonic sounds of my hayes modem and the tappity zip tick tack of my dot matrix. Unix, Linux, Windows, Cloud or even my Merlin the electronic wizard are memories I have in this lifetime.

Are you are a static IP or Dynamic IP, that is the question here.

I removed , purchase only computers which i can reduce to win. 7 pro or change operating system. 

or i remove the windows 10 features from the system s so things operate properly and no querkey issues from the operating system . 

We Find that by doing this we have less problems . 

From IPVM site visitors for February 2017:

• Windows XP - 0.5%
• Windows 8 - 14%
• Windows 7 - 45%
• Windows 10 - 40%

when using, Programming, Managing legacy equipment you cannot always use all the state of the art systems or tracking components of windows 10. Therefore you either disable, downgrade, or just get rid of the new stuff that does not work . 

Many older systems still require Slow, Small File Size Data packets and cannot work on the new. 

We have met many techs from many company's who still buy old window s xp laptops and keep them working for the equipment they use, programs, programming. 

If not you have to have a computer genius to help determine the processor orders . 

Great I.T. Dept , Very Knowledgeable , Very Computer savy personnel. 

Best to just not make the change, if you cannot get the products to work properly. 

Or what if you get it working and then some changes need to be made and the computer guys are not around. 

What ever it takes, it need s to be user friendly for old school and new school (apt driven ) personnel 

Solution is all that counts , not means taken to get there. 

At the end of the day , all I care about is Reliability,and the completion of task.

Quarky computer Problems ( you dont need ) 

For our company and clients , that problem is the 4 hour or 1 day time changer that cost too much. 

When I am at a facility that took me 4-6 hours to get to. Or had to clear in to work.

I came in from out of town and no support team . I dont have the luxury of the system not working. or the site that is in the middle of no where and no communications or cell phones, or towers with in range. or have to drive an hour to find communication s . 

I would be the technician who Threw the computer in the trash. or immediately wanted to change it out. 

Usually i have 2-3 different computers with me at all times, and phones. and just about anything simi related to my job i can get into the truck. 

Truck Packed to the max. and not a happy camper when I have to travel 2 or more hours to find state of the art adapters that work. (office supply, staples, frys, etc  

I have been in that situation many times and learned well from the past . 

Always a Boy Scout, Always  Prepared

I have 2-3 , even more cables, adapters, terminals, blocks etc of all kinds just because of the MS , need a ms tech to fix it situation. 

MS is not always accessible and usually after your at that pt. YOUR not a happy camper . 

Compatibility and Backward Compatibility that's what counts.

I have talked to many site technicians who come out , don't have a clue, figure out what they need, have to return , don't solve the problem, come out again. 

Thier usually the ones who loose thier standing with the customer. NOT Happy 

That's extreme overhead. 

Solutions, the 1st time around